Our local BMW CCA chapter has a great event each fall where the local BMW dealer opens it's service department for an all day tech session w/ BBQ and all the fixin's. Members get to sign up for 'lift time' to do nearly any maintenance/repair they want, with a BMW Tech right by your side to teach/help and lend you their tools :)

Despite the very knowledgeable, erudite countenance in this thread to the contrary, I'll go with my old gut and sign up this year to do an early engine oil/filter change in my then 2-3 month old X5 35d :)

Funf Dreisig

Great! Please let me know how much oil is supposed to go in there! Funny how this has been asked umpteen times and no one has posted an answer!

i gotta get me a bigger Kubota.

The problem is that none of us responding have a 35d, and the sump capacity isn't listed in the owner's manual.

A quick web search showed a reference to it having an 8 quart sump, the same as the 30i. I would start with something just below that, and have additional oil on hand in case it was up or down a quart (given that not everything posted on the web is in fact true....)

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No, you gotta get a bigger tractor.

A Kubota first (I even found an L3240), and then an example of "a bigger tractor". The larger one is a D11R, I don't know who is standing in front of it, but it is likely taken at Minexpo in Las Vegas last September. More photos in the Minexpo thread in the lounge from last year.

Those of us (like you) who spent lots of time changing oil in vehicles from the 50s, 60s, and 70s well remember magnetic oil drain plugs. And we don't begrudge you wanting one. If you do a search, I recall a post where a member found a source for them, to fit an E53.

So your Kubota has a magnetic plug in the hydraulic tank (which makes a lot of sense to me). Does it also have one in the engine? That plug, and an example of what it looked like at 50 hours, would be more relevant to a BMW engine oil concern, IMO.

As an aside, do you cut your filters open to inspect them when you change them? That may tell you as much, or more, than the magnetic plug, and is a good practice in any case.

Actually the Kubota's hydraulic filter has a magnetic ring just inside the seal. The filter is about 4-5" in diameter. The picture i posted is of that magnetic ring complete with the shrapnel that it captured. Unfortunately, the drain plugs for both the engine (1) and hydraulic sump (2) are boringly simple plugs (AKA bolts) with no magnets :( And worse yet, they are too small to even insert a little finger to check for residue in the sump.

And yes I often do cut open filters to see what they caught. Particularly the metal fuel filters on the 530i. The contents are revealing and the empty case makes a nice small funnel :)

Funf Dreisig

p.s. that Kubota needs a back-hoe to keep it well balanced :)

i have a BX24. i don't think i have a hydraulic filter. i'll have to look.

yes it's a small tractor but i'm confident in my tractorhood. :)

besides, the Vette and the F350 make up for any shortcomings.

BX 24 has a hydraulic filter (located under the seat area forward of the transmission-accessed from below) as well as a screen accessed from the rear lower left as you view it. Change it! and the fluid!

thanks. will do. :thumbup: